Also: Northern CA Coordinator Brian Grupe could
use your hands! If you could leaflet for an
hour or two at any of the schools below, please
contact info
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org. You’ll
be glad you did!

And
if you would like to be a part of Hotel VO and
host an activist in your area, and/or would
like to get involved if an activist comes to
your area, please contact info
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org. Thanks
so much!

Notes
from Our Members

At
Fresno City College, another veg-on-the-spot!

Leafleting Michelle Obama’s Let’s
Move talk was spectacular! A mostly
African-American crowd leaving the church; we
were literally surrounded by a sea of hands
asking for literature, with some people coming
back for a booklet when they realized what we
were handing out.—Jeff Boghosian, 2/11/12

Yesterday was our first day of
taking farmed animals’ plight to Mexico. Jeni
and I were joined by our host Israel, and we
reached 400 students at the local high school,
Escuela Preparatoria de Texcoco. To my pleasant
surprise, we found massive interest in the booklets.
Saw dozens reading between classes or walking
and reading. One student came back to us and
said he wanted to volunteer and get involved;
we put him in touch with Israel. Another student
came back and said this was really crazy, he
has been thinking of going veg for a while and
now he will. Another professor or teacher expressed
interest, and we spoke to him for over 15 minutes.
Today: What a
day! We reached 2,200 at Metropolitan University,
and met around 15 people who explicitly told
us they were vegano or vegetarian. A truly ridiculous
number of people were reading as they walked
to and from lunch. Saw a girl on the back of
a bike with long seat holding herself on with
legs while both hands had booklet open and pressed
against her boyfriend’s back and she read as they slowly cruised
down the walkway. Many showed us the booklet hours later, several asked
for more to show friends, and many more came back to get the booklets
when they found out we were distributing them.
Great conversations,
too! Adriel stopped by and we spoke to him for
a few minutes til we handed him off to Israel;
they spoke for 45 minutes, he wants to get involved
locally and I asked if he wanted to help and
boom, instant activist. He stayed and reached
250 students with ¿Por qué vegetariano?—Vic Sjodin, with Jeni Haines,
2/8/12

Another
Fresno City College student whose life
was changed after being handed a VO booklet.

A guy handed me a booklet
at school, so I read it. I’m glad I did, otherwise
I would have probably never known the shocking
facts. Thank you!—KJ

I saw a booklet about
the cruelties of factory farming by chance.
It changed my life.—EP

Was handed a booklet at
Disneyland, and haven’t eaten meat ever since,
trying to do even better than that. :) Thank
you.—GB

I was on campus and
was handed a booklet. I always wanted to go
vegan I just never knew how to get started.
Thanks so much!—JP

Received a booklet from
a friend about a year ago. Loved it! Inspired
me to become vegan. :)—HW

Lori, Lisa, Mike and I had
a very productive day at Foothill College, where
we reached a record 1,623 students (including
handing out an amazing 92 Guides).
The take rate was excellent, and almost everyone
was friendly. I had conversations with omnivores
who were interested in becoming vegetarians,
and vegetarians considering becoming vegan.
One woman said she’d probably be vegan, but
she enjoys baking too much to give it up. She
honestly didn’t know she could bake without
eggs and dairy! I was delighted to give her
a Guide and let her know there are
plenty of vegan baking cookbooks and websites.
Another student wanted to know how becoming
vegan had impacted me personally. I probably
made him late to class with that one. :-) Another
person thanked me for being there. I left feeling
really positive!—Diane Gandee Sorbi, 11/1/11

Jackiie
DeLexa Cano answers questions at the College
of the Sequoias.

Citrus College is amazing. This
campus never fails to produce at least one
new vegan with each visit. Today’s was named
Laura, and she was in only one of the three
“spark flying” conversations I had!—Nikki Benoit, 11/14/11

Great interactions at
the University of West Georgia; e.g., as I was
leaving, a student told me she became vegetarian
because of a VO booklet someone handed her.
I gave her a Guide.—Rob Gilbride, 11/14/11

Love when you meet someone new
to veganism while leafleting and they are super
stoked to meet another vegan. It’s a good feeling
to know that just by meeting them you helped
solidify their veganism.—Aaron & Kate, 2/10/12

Superb take rate and
friendly students at the University of North Carolina
at Pembroke. Even most faculty and staff took
booklets. Amazing conversations, too. I told
many students my story about how I became vegan
and that I made the change primarily for animals,
many of whom suffer from the moment they are
born until the day they die in the industrialized
food system. One faculty member took ten booklets
to put on display in his office. Another faculty
member who took a booklet earlier in the day
passed by again and thanked me for the info.—Brandon Becker, 11/14/11

Nikki
sends this picture of Brittney Montana,
who went vegan last year after receiving
a VO booklet, and is now a leafleter (here
at the College of the Desert).

Jessica, Leslie, Diane, Danielle
(making her leafleting debut),
and I reached over 2,000 students at City College
of San Francisco – what a great vegan posse!
I then gave a talk at Sonoma State. The presentation
went on for an hour and after I was finished,
the professor talked to the class about for
a minute while I packed up. She asked the class
how many would be willing to do Meatless Mondays,
and about ¾ of the class raised their
hands. I also found out that one of the most
inquisitive and supportive students in the class
grew up on a ranch. He was the one to pipe up
and say that small farms are not the solution
because of the amount of demand we have as a
nation. He also said he’s worried about
going to his grandparent’s cattle ranch
this week. “It’s going to be weird
being around the animals.”—Brian Grupe, 11/15/11

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